The Rebel wrote:Cactus Jack wrote:The Rebel wrote:
I have watched a total of about 30 minutes of premier league, kicking a ball back and forth and running around in circles is something that 5 year olds do, yet you have millions of fans in Europe ready to kill people for their teams. I mean you may get 4 or 5 good seconds of fun content in the whole 90 minutes of watching, but hey at least they don't have commercials right?
That is the way Europeans sounds about American Football, you don't know or understand the game so obviously it is going to be hard to watch until you figure out the game. Fact is at least in the American version something other than running in circles happens.
No sport is perfect.
The issue with European Soccer is that money rules everything. Clubs like Man City & PSG have a huge advantage over all the rest. The same clubs compete every year in Champions League. Parity isn't a real thing. There's no real incentive for smaller clubs. At some point you will lose your best players to a bigger club that can pay them higher wages. You also face the real possibility of relegation on a yearly basis. It's a lose/lose.
American Football has it's own problems. Over-commercialization, health & head trauma, etc.
All sports have their issues, their fans, and of course their detractors, I just find it both funny and odd how many Europeans slam and look down on American football while pushing sports that literally 4 year olds play. I mean sports don't get more simple than kicking a ball around.
You're free to like or dislike any sport you want and nobody will argue with your personal tastes. But for the record, I think a 4 years old would find playing American Football easier to play than European Football. At those beginner, extremely basic levels of play, in American Football there is much less thinking going on, and there is no skill involved at all when compared to Euro Football. It does get more simple than kicking a ball around: just plain carrying it in your lap.